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[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Lea asked:

>I'm new here! =0)...I was wondering...does anyone have a good period
>recipe for candied almonds?

The message pasted below was posted here a while back. It is taken from
this file in the FOOD-SWEETS section of my Stefan's Florilegium.
candy-msg        (109K)  8/31/98    Period candy. Recipes. Candied fruit peels.

My files are at: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rialto/rialto.html

Some messages also talk about substituting almonds for the pine nuts in
the ginger candy. But as that comes out more like modern peanut brittle
than individual coated almonds, I have not quoted it here. There are
also multiple redactions and comment messages about it in this file.

Lord Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:56:20 -0500 (EST)
From: DianaFiona at aol.com
Subject: Re: SC - re:  candied cinnamon

     Both ideas sound great to me, but I actually ran across a reference to
candied cinnamon sticks in Culpeper's Herbal while looking for something
else. It's brief, and none too clear, but says:
     "Lastly, amongst the Barks, Cinnamon, amongst the Flowers, Roses, and
Marigolds, amongst the fruits, Almonds, Cloves, Pinenuts, and Fistick-nuts,
are said to be preserved but with this difference, they are encrusted with
dry sugar, and are more called confects than preserves."
     This is written at the end of a short chapter on "Preserved Roots,
Stalks, Barks, Flowers, Fruits." However, most other items in the chapter
*are* boiled in a sugar syrup, sometimes after being steeped in several
changes of water. (Roots--including ginger, which started the thread, and
citrus peels) So I don't think it would be unreasonable to conclude that the
cinnamon sticks were boiled in syrup before coating with sugar, as we've all
asumed would be best! Of course, the other items listed with the cinnamon,
either *could* or, in the case of the flowers, probably *should* only be
coated with the sugar, so who knows? Oh, well, at least we have a reference
to go by now.................... ;-)

Ldy Diana
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